Living and working through the challenges of a pandemic offered a unique research opportunity to engage with some core questions about what really matters in Religious Education (RE) in countries across Europe. The What Covid Reveals to Religious Education Specialists research project sought to provide a reflective space for RE specialists, drawn from the board members of the European Forum for Teachers of Religious Education (EFTRE), to consider their experiences of RE during the Covid-19 pandemic and to begin to articulate what they might want in the future for RE in light of their experiences. Areas explored in the online qualitative survey included: challenging questions and issues, social unrest, student–teacher relationships, learning scenarios, valued dimensions in RE, opportunities for the future, and ‘ideal’ RE. Respondents were from sixteen of the twenty-two countries present on the EFTRE Board, offering their individual perspectives from Western, Northern, Central and Southern Europe. Using the tool ATLAS.ti, an inductive analytical approach was employed; a number of key group ‘themes’ emerged from the responses, which provided a basis for further analysis. This paper will present some of the main findings in dialogue with the focusing research stimulus question: What does Covid-19 reveal to RE specialists about their subject? The project is a European collaboration involving researchers from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Ireland and Wales.

应对流行病挑战的生活和工作提供了一个独特的研究机会，可以探讨欧洲各国宗教教育（RE）中真正重要的一些核心问题。Covid 向宗教教育专家揭示了什么研究项目旨在为欧洲宗教教育教师论坛 (EFTRE) 董事会成员中的宗教教育专家提供一个反思空间，以考虑他们在 Covid-19 大流行期间的宗教教育经历并开始根据他们的经验阐明他们未来可能希望 RE 得到什么。在线定性调查探讨的领域包括：具有挑战性的问题和问题、社会动荡、师生关系、学习场景、RE 的有价值维度、未来的机会和“理想”RE。受访者来自 EFTRE 委员会 22 个国家中的 16 个国家，他们提供了西欧、北欧、中欧和南欧的个人观点。使用 ATLAS.ti 工具，采用归纳分析方法；答复中出现了一些关键群体的“主题”，为进一步分析提供了基础。本文将在与重点研究刺激问题的对话中介绍一些主要发现：Covid-19 向 RE 专家揭示了有关其主题的哪些内容？ 该项目是一项欧洲合作项目，涉及来自奥地利、德国、匈牙利、爱尔兰和威尔士的研究人员。